Build an Extensible Data Warehouse Foundation
Establish a well-architected core model with just enough oversight and governance.
- Data warehouse implementation is a costly and complex undertaking, and can end up not serving the business' needs appropriately.
- Too heavy a focus on technology creates a data warehouse that isn’t sustainable and ends up with poor adoption.
- Emerging data sources and technologies add complexity to how the appropriate data is made available to business users.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- A data warehouse is a project; but successful data warehousing is a program. An effective data warehouse requires planning beyond the technology implementation.
- Governance, not technology needs to be the core support system for enabling a data warehouse program.
- Understand business processes at the operational, tactical, and ad hoc levels to ensure a fit-for-purpose DW is built.
Impact and Result
- Leverage an approach that focuses on constructing a data warehouse foundation that is able to address a combination of operational, tactical, and ad hoc business needs.
- Invest time and effort to put together pre-project governance to inform and provide guidance to your data warehouse implementation.
- Develop “Rosetta Stone” views of your data assets to facilitate data modeling.
- Select the most suitable architecture pattern to ensure the data warehouse is “built right” at the very beginning.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.3/10
Overall Impact
$17,570
Average $ Saved
14
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Katz Media Corporation
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
N/A
Best part was collaborating with Usman and Alessandra to build a functional reporting database. Worst part was how limiting MS Access can be.
Niagara Health System
Guided Implementation
9/10
$5,000
5
Sunflower Bank
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Pivot Advisors
Guided Implementation
9/10
$30,140
23
All very positive. Have more questions as time allows.
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Guided Implementation 1: Prepare for the data warehouse foundation project
- Call 1: Discuss structuring your project team, defining success metrics and risks, and organizing a steering committee.
- Call 2: Discuss the impacts of other data management practices on your data warehouse foundation project.
Guided Implementation 2: Establish the business drivers and data warehouse strategy
- Call 1: Walk through how to characterize operational, tactical, and ad hoc business processes that will guide the data warehouse.
- Call 2: Discuss the four “Rosetta Stones” for data modeling.
- Call 3: Develop an architecture strategy based on business and data needs, and review the data warehouse vendor landscape.
Guided Implementation 3: Plan for data warehouse governance
- Call 1: Plan for the formation of a data warehouse center of excellence.
- Call 2: Discuss defining standard operating procedures and service-level agreements for the data warehouse.
Contributors
- Chris Debo, Senior Manager, Schneider Downs & Co., Inc.
- Jaison Dominic, Lead Architect, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Moffitt Cancer Center
- Liselle Ramcharan, Project Manager, TD Insurance
- Randy Piscione, Enterprise Data Architect, BMO Financial Group
- Sree Pulapaka, Director of Enterprise Business Innovation and Analytics, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
- 1 anonymous contributor
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